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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_21153" /> ==

<p> (See [[Mainsail]]). </p> <p> a heretic; toward the end of the second century. Little is known of his history; even his name is sometimes given [[Artemon]] and sometimes Artemas. The principal sources of our scanty information are Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. v, 28, where he uses the name Artemon, and 7:30, where it is Artemas; Theodoret, lceret. Fab. Epit. ii, 4; Epiphanius, Her. lxv, 1, 4; Photius, Biblioth. 48. [[Eusebius]] cites names of writers against Artemon, and gives some hints of his doctrine as being the same with that of [[Theodotus]] the tanner, viz. that Christ was a mere man. [[Theodoret]] (1. c.) says that Artemon believed in God the creator, but asserted Christ to be a mere man; born of a virgin, however, and superior to the prophets. Eusebius speaks of Artemon and his followers as abandoning the [[Scriptures]] for "syllogisms, and geometry." He states also that Paul of Samosata revived the heresy of Artemon. Schleiermacher (Theol. Zeitschrf,i 1822, iii, 295 sq.; translated by Moses Stuart in Bibl. Repository, v, 334 sq.) goes into a careful examination of the fragments of our knowledge about Artemon, and adopts the view previously given out by [[Gennadius]] of Marseilles, that Artemon was, in reality, a Sabellian. See also Lardner, Works, ii, 403 sq.; Schaffhausen, Historia Artemonis et Artemonitarum, Leipzig, 1737, 4to; Dorner, [[Doctrine]] of the Person of Christ, div. i, vol. ii, 8; Neander, Church History, i, 580. </p>